Petition Calling on NI Health Minister to ensure Northern Ireland residents suffer no disadvantage when accessing cancer drugs
- Target:
- NI Health Minister
- Region:
- United Kingdom
This is a petition calling on NI Health Minister to renegotiate with NICE to ensure residents of Northern Ireland suffer no disadvantage , compared to those elsewhere in the UK, when it comes to access to (and trials for ) specialist cancer drugs .
This peition comes on the back of a media article regarding the case of Melanie Kennedy, a mother-of-two who is battling breast cancer and is being refused life altering drugs on the NHS in Northern Ireland. These drugs are available in England.
It is unfair and discriminatory that one part of the UK should be eligible for these medications and another isn't. The following links will provide all the relevant information. We believe this could be funded out of the DHSSPS budget, it is important that patients have the opportunity to wide range of medication.
https://www.facebook.com/NI-Cancer-Advocacy-Movement-195685207469651/?fref=ts
http://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/health/mum-two-melanie-kennedy-fighting-11104170
https://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/cancer/cdf/
http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/cancers-in-general/cancer-questions/cancer-drugs-fund
We, the undersigned, call on the Minister for Health in the Northern Ireland Executive to renegotiate with NICE to ensure residents of Northern Ireland suffer no disadvantage, compared to those elsewhere in the U.K., when it comes to access to (and trials for) specialist cancer drugs.
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The Petition Calling on NI Health Minister to ensure Northern Ireland residents suffer no disadvantage when accessing cancer drugs petition to NI Health Minister was written by Craig Weir and is in the category Health at GoPetition.